Schedule
100-Pound Dairy Tours™
We’ll board busses each day at 8:00 a.m. and
return to the same location around 5:00 p.m.
each day.
If you agree with the quote “I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember…” and want to learn the
tips and tricks of dairies achieving 100 pounds
per cow per day, then the 100-Pound Dairy
Tours is for you.
Day 1 – Tuesday, Oct. 15
We’re going to look at how these dairies are
driving down somatic cell count in their bulk
tanks, getting cows pregnant faster, culling
less for reproductive failure and making cow
comfort programs a priority. We’ll check out
how these dairies are using technology to
make more timely and informed decisions—
which can lead to better individual cow care,
productivity and profitability.
Board busses and return to Target parking
lot, 5300 U.S. Highway 10 (intersection of
Hwy. 39 & Hwy 10), Stevens Point, Wis.
Tour stops:
• Central Sands Dairy, Nekoosa, Wis.
• Maple Ridge Dairy, Stratford, Wis.
• Feltz Family Farms, Stevens Point, Wis.
These are three stand-alone tour days. Join us
for one, two or all three days of tours.
Day 2 – Wednesday, Oct. 16
Board busses and return to Chippewa Valley
Technical College, 11 Tiff Ave., Neillsville, Wis.
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100-Pound
Tour stops:
• Harmony Ho Holsteins, Stratford, Wis.
• JTP Farms, Dorchester, Wis.
• Selz Farm, Humbird, Wis.
Dairy Tours™
Day 3 – Thursday, Oct. 17
Oct. 15, 16 & 17, 2013
Board busses and return to PDPW Headquarters, 820 N. Main St., Juneau, Wis.
820 N. Main St., Suite D
Juneau, WI 53039
• Nehls Brothers Farms, Juneau, Wis.
• Kutz Dairy, Jefferson, Wis.
• JC-Kow Farms, Whitewater, Wis.
Professional Dairy Producers
Tour stops:
Milk production per cow is a strong indicator of
economic and production efficiency, and this year’s
100-Pound Dairy Tours will highlight nine innovative,
highly efficient Wisconsin dairies where 100 pounds
per cow per day or higher is the norm. Owners and
managers will open the doors of their facilities, share
their SOPs and explain the who, what, when, where,
why and how that is helping them achieve such amazing
production.
Attend one day, two days or all three days of tours.
Brought to you by
Professional Dairy Producers
Badgerland Financial
Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Inc.
Land O’Lakes
MorganMyers
Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board
Zinpro Performance Minerals
PDPW Corporate Sponsors
Agri-View
AgStar Financial Services
Alltech
American Foods Group
ANIMART
Arm & Hammer Animal Nutrition
Atten Babler Commodities LLC
BMO Harris Bank
CP Feeds LLC
Cargill Animal Nutrition
Cooperative Resources Intl.
Dairy Management Inc.
Dairyland Seed Co. Inc.
DeWitt Ross & Stevens
Diamond V
DuPont Pioneer
Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Assoc.
FarmFirst Dairy Cooperative
Foremost Farms USA
GEA Farm Technologies Inc.
Greenstone Farm Credit Services
Hastings Mutual Insurance Co.
Merck Animal Health
Progressive Dairyman
Rural Mutual Insurance Company
Stewart-Peterson
Twohig Rietbrock Schneider & Halbach S.C.
USAgNet LLC
Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association
Zoetis
5.25 CE
Courses run in partnership with
School of Veterinary Medicine
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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100-Pound Dairy Tours™ is a trademark
of the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin.
Day 1 – Tuesday, Oct. 15
Day 2 – Wednesday, Oct. 16
100-Pound Dairy Tours™
Day 3 – Thursday, Oct. 17
Oct. 15, 16 & 17, 2013
Featuring America’s Dairyland: Wisconsin
Central Sands Dairy, Nekoosa, Wis.
Manager: Adam Onan
Harmony Ho Holsteins, Stratford, Wis.
Owners/Managers: Ralph and Sharon Bredl
Manager: Jerry Gaska
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Central Sands Dairy milks 3,500 head of Jerseys and
Holstein-Jersey crossbreds. The six-year-old dairy has
a 72-cow rotary parlor that milks 500 cows per hour,
with five people per shift. This dairy dispels the myth
that sand cannot be used for bedding on a farm with
an anaerobic digester.
The construction of a dry cow barn in 2004 brought the herd
to the present size of 500 High Genetic merit Registered
Holsteins. The herd growth during the past 10 years has been
accomplished while maintaining a 29,000 to 31,000-lb herd
average. Their milk is processed into cheese at the family
owned Harmony Specialty Dairy Foods.
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Our tour will zero in on the dairy’s. . .
• Two four-row sand-bedded freestall barns with
fans and soakers
• Three-stage sand separation system
• Methane digester and lagoon water piped for
center pivot irrigation
Learn how Harmony Ho Holsteins maintains....
• Cull rates under 25%
• Pedigree quality
• Top milk production
Nehls Brothers Farms has 2,050 mature Holstein cows,
1,900 young stock and three main locations in close
proximity to each other: the parlor location, the maternity/
dry cow location and the calf facility. Heifer calves are raised
on-site while bull calves are sold within one week of birth.
Lactating cows are housed in four four-row freestall barns,
bedded with recycled sand and milked three times a day in a
double 36-parallel parlor.
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Maple Ridge Dairy, Stratford, Wis.
Owners/Managers: Jake and Tom Peissig
This stop will also have us learn more about the dairy’s . . .
• On-site University of Wisconsin research projects—
such as evaluation of feed additives, disease
monitoring programs, reproductive trials and udder
health protocols
• Serving as a learning site for fourth-year veterinary
students from the University of Wisconsin School of
Veterinary Medicine
Owners/Managers: Brian Forrest and Ken Hein
In the past 17 years, Maple Ridge Dairy has grown in
spurts and had one partner sell to a new partner who
assumed a key leadership position. The dairy has 32
employees and 1,550 cows, including 250 purchased this
summer. The dairy milks at three different sites, with all
dry and special needs cows housed at the main farm.
Areas we’ll target at this dairy include. . .
• Non-family partner transition
• Addition to special needs barn
• Feeding a low-forage diet that incorporates
forage extenders and by-products
Feltz Family Farms, Stevens Point, Wis.
Owners/Managers: Ken and Jackie Feltz
This fourth-generation 500-cow dairy is poised to
carry the farm into the fifth generation as the Feltz’s
son Jared recently returned to the family farm. The
dairy has 11 full-time employees, employs a team
approach and invests in growing employees. The dairy
also invests in facilities and has undergone numerous
phases of improvement and expansion.
We’ll take a micro and macro look at the dairy’s. . .
• High-quality forages grown
• Sand separation and recycling system
• All natural breeding—no AI
JTP Farms, Dorchester, Wis.
This father-son team milks 285 cows and operates their
dairy, including raising all young stock, using only two fulltime people. Their facility includes 4/56-stall groups, a crossventilated barn, sand bedding and a special needs pre-fresh
area. Their new robotic system has led to steady growth in milk
production, a lower cull rate and overall better herd health.
We’ll check technology in use on the farm and the Peissig’s
findings related to. . .
• Robotic milkers
• Cow comfort
• Operator ease
Selz Farm, Humbird, Wis.
Owners/Managers: Scott and Pam Selz-Pralle
Managing one cow at a time is the motto of this century farm
that milks 425 cows. The 100% registered Holsteins are housed
in a naturally ventilated, six-row barn with sand-bedded
freestalls and milked in a double-10 parallel parlor. The cows
are milking 104 pounds per cow per day with 3.9% fat and 3.0%
protein—and are known for collecting awards.
Scott and Pam Selz-Pralle will discuss. . .
• Technology used to track heats and obtain rumination
data
• Developing high-production cows and cow families with
udders that work and wear
• Transitioning to harvesting corn silage as shredlage
We’ll board busses each day at 8:00 a.m. and
return to the same location around 5:00 p.m. each day.
Nehls Brothers Farms, Juneau, Wis.
Kutz Dairy, Jefferson, Wis.
Owners/Managers: Ron, Aaron and Allan Kutz
This father-and-two-son operation milks 1,400 Jersey cows,
raises more than 1,600 head of dairy replacement heifers
and farms just over 1,400 acres of crop land which supplies
part of the feed for the dairy. The herd ranks among the
Top 25% of the breed for Jersey Performance Index. Their
enclosed calf barn is raised with four wings and is credited
with lowering the dairy’s calf mortality rate to less than 1%.
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• Registration fee covers charter bus transportation,
lunch, snacks and beverages.
• Each tour will start and end at a designated location.
Member Registration Rate
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$89/person for one day
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The show-and-tell at this stop includes. . .
• Advantages of feeding shredlage
• Constant attention to SOPs to reduce costs
• Strategies and tactics that lessen disease spread
among calves
$168/person for two days
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$247/person for three days X
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JC-Kow Farms, Whitewater, Wis.
$139/person for one day
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Owner/Manager: Jarrod Kollwelter
$268/person for two days
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Jarrod Kollwelter belongs to an elite group: the 40,000
pounds and over group. During the past 11 years, the dairy
has built a freestall barn, grown from 50 to 180 cows and
retrofitted the stanchion barn to a parlor. The dairyman
zeroes in on every aspect of the dairy with the same
precision and purpose as he does genetics.
$397/person for three days X
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Jarrod will share. . .
• How the dairy sets up cows to succeed
• How “good genetics, good feed, cow comfort and
attention to detail” are making the difference
• His approach to selecting females to flush
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If paying by check, make checks payable to PDPW.
Mail completed form to:
PDPW
820 N. Main St., Suite D
Juneau, WI 53039
Register online at www.pdpw.org
or call 800-947-7379